WDBB (channel 17) is a television station licensed to Bessemer, Alabama, United States, serving Tuscaloosa and west Alabama as a satellite of Birmingham-based CW affiliate WTTO (channel 21, licensed to Homewood). It is owned by Cunningham Broadcasting, a partner company of the Sinclair Broadcast Group, which owns WTTO, MyNetworkTV affiliate WABM (channel 68), and regional ABC affiliate WBMA-LD (channel 58), which WDBB also rebroadcasts. Sinclair supplies all of WDBB's programming under a programming services agreement, a form of local marketing agreement. However, Sinclair effectively owns WDBB, as the majority of Cunningham's stock is owned by the family of deceased group founder Julian Smith. The transmitter is located near Windham Springs, east of State Route 69.
WDBB was started a local independent station by Dubose Broadcasting in 1984; it soon expanded to cover Birmingham. In 1986, the station launched WNAL-TV (channel 44) in Gadsden, which together with WDBB provided regional coverage. WDBB-WNAL served as the Fox Broadcasting Company affiliate for the Tuscaloosa, Birmingham, and Anniston–Gadsden markets from the network's launch in 1986 until 1990, when the affiliation went to WTTO; WDBB began simulcasting that station the next year due to financial difficulties. WDBB and WTTO lost Fox in 1996 due to a major regional shuffle of network affiliations, affiliating with The WB in 1997 and with The CW in 2006.
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WDBB (channel 17) is a television station licensed to Bessemer, Alabama, United States, serving Tuscaloosa and west Alabama as a satellite of Birmingham-based...
area, WTTO's CW channel and two subchannels of WBMA-LD are rebroadcast on WDBB (channel 17), which is licensed to Bessemer. It is owned by Cunningham Broadcasting...
affiliate WBMA-LD (channel 58); Sinclair also operates Bessemer-licensed WDBB (channel 17), which serves as a full satellite station of WTTO, under a local...
Sinclair owns the largest ABC subchannel affiliate by market size, WABM-DT2/WDBB-DT2 in the Birmingham market, which serve as repeaters of WBMA-LD (which...
WTTO (channel 21, now a CW affiliate)—which, along with semi-satellites WDBB (channel 17) in Tuscaloosa and WNAL-TV (channel 44, now Ion Television affiliate...
between WTTO and its satellite station, WDBB (channel 17); this would, in effect, create a new LMA between WBMA+ and WDBB, even though the commission had ruled...
NBC WCIV 4 NBC ABC September 1 Birmingham–Tuscaloosa, AL WBRC 6 ABC Fox WDBB/WTTO 17/21 Fox Independent WCFT-TV 33 CBS ABC WJSU-TV 40 CBS ABC WNAL-TV...
Birmingham PBS Kids on 7.2, Create on 7.3, World on 7.4 Tuscaloosa Bessemer 17 14 WDBB CW satellite of WTTO ch. 21 Birmingham ABC on 17.2 (WBMA-LD 58.1), Weather...
Jacksonville, Florida WCIX – Miami, Florida, Patricia San Pedro hosted the show. WDBB-TV – Tuscaloosa, Alabama, originally called "Dialing for Big Bucks", hosted...
Anniston 40 WGWW Heroes & Icons on 40.1 ABC on 40.2 via WBMA-LD Bessemer 17 WDBB The CW on 17.1 ABC on 17.2 via WBMA-LD Birmingham 6 WBRC Fox Birmingham 10...
owned-and-operated station WPXH-TV), which—along with WTTO and its Tuscaloosa satellite WDBB (channel 17)—lost its Fox affiliation to WBRC. With the switch to Fox, WBRC...
Station Channel Owned since Network affiliation Bessemer–Birmingham, AL WDBB 17 1995 The CW Chico–Redding, CA KCVU 20 2017 Fox Eureka–Arcata, CA KBVU...
California WPHL-TV in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania WCWJ in Jacksonville, Florida WDBB in Birmingham, Alabama WPCH-TV in Atlanta, Georgia WZTV-DT2, a digital subchannel...
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